September 2009

You may have a small RAC database that is managed with the dbconsole rather than the grid. The documentation states that the console must be started manually on the applicable cluster node(s) whenever it is required. Couldn't the CRS cluster start and stop the dbconsole automatically?

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 has a new feature named server pools. If a database is created as a policy managed RAC database then policy will dictate where the database instances are placed in the cluster rather than which instances were created on which node at creation time.

Take a cluster of three nodes.

Oracle Database 11g release 2 has been released. Key improvements include